Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An insoluble dark blue pigment and dye, ferric ferrocyanide or one of its modifications.
  • noun A moderate to strong blue or deep greenish blue.

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  • noun inorganic chemistry An insoluble dark, bright blue pigment, ferric ferrocyanide (equivalent to ferrous ferricyanide)
  • noun A moderate to rich blue colour, tinted with deep greenish blue.
  • adjective Of a rich blue colour, tinted with green.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of various blue pigments
  • noun a dark greenish-blue color

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From its having been discovered by an 18th-century color-maker in Berlin (then in Prussia).]

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The pigment was discovered in Germany (Prussia at the time) by Diesbach.

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